US4240238A - Gripping means for machine for filling and closing flexible tubes - Google Patents

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US4240238A
US4240238A US06/052,430 US5243079A US4240238A US 4240238 A US4240238 A US 4240238A US 5243079 A US5243079 A US 5243079A US 4240238 A US4240238 A US 4240238A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B7/00—Closing containers or receptacles after filling
    • B65B7/14—Closing collapsible or resilient tubes, e.g. for tooth paste, for lighter fuel
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B51/00—Devices for, or methods of, sealing or securing package folds or closures; Devices for gathering or twisting wrappers, or necks of bags
    • B65B51/10—Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof
    • B65B51/14—Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof by reciprocating or oscillating members
    • B65B51/142—Closing bottle necks or tubes

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  • the present practice is to use automatic machines operating at high speeds in the order of one package per second.
  • Plastics materials such as polyethylene, polypropylene and nylon are more elastic than malleable and give the walls of the tube a "memory". After temporary deformation the wall tends to return to its initial shape. Thus when an empty plastics tube is closed by mechanical gripping it tends to return to its initial tubular shape on being released.
  • Tubes made of plastics or a complex consisting of metal and plastics cannot be sealed simply by folding and corrugating them, as is the practice with aluminium tubes, which remain folded and flattened.
  • tubes where at least the internal surface is made of thermoplastic material are sealed by welding the internal surface to itself.
  • the tube has to be gripped before welding and kept gripped long enough for the weld to cool and resist the tendency of the tube to return to its initial shape.
  • French Pat. No. 1,069,414 describes an automatic machine in which flexible plastics tubes are filled, then closed by gripping and welding.
  • the machine further comprises gripping jaws which accompany the tubes in their movement.
  • the jaws which are denoted by references 20 and 21 in this patent, are displaced on both sides of the tubes by sliding on guides in a horizontal plane above the table of the machine.
  • the jaws occupy a certain height above the table, which cannot then be used for other devices.
  • the other operations required of the machine such as positioning the tubes, guiding them, adjusting them by guide marks, marking, filling them, cutting the ends and ejecting, have to be carried out by devices located above or below the jaws.
  • a tube After filling and sealing, a tube cannot thereupon be picked up immediately at the level of its seating. It has to be projected vertically so as to cover a distance corresponding to the thickness of the jaws, without any guidance.
  • the orientation which the tube has relative to its axis on leaving the machine is not reliable, and this may create difficulties in subsequent operations.
  • the subject matter of the invention is an arrangement of the vice gripper type in which one of the jaws, when not in operation but in the open position, recedes above its working plane by being raised substantially above the other jaw.
  • the two jaws are each actuated by at least one control rod sliding radially over the machine.
  • the rod controlling the outer jaw has its end hinged for movement in a vertical plane, over a length corresponding substantially to the distance between the two jaws in the open position, while a return means endeavours to keep the hinged end of the rod in a vertical position and thus raise the outer jaw.
  • the inner jaw is displaced in a horizontal plane bearing on the control rod of the outer jaw.
  • it bears on the end of the control rod of the outer jaw and returns that rod to the horizontal position. This brings the outer jaw into the working plane of the inner jaw thus enabling the two jaws to carry out their gripping function in a horizontal plane.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic plan view of a rotating table
  • FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-section through the table, passing through the axis of the seating for a tube, with the two jaws gripped to weld the orifice of the tube.
  • FIG. 3 is a half section through the table, taken in a vertical plane passing through the axis of the seating for a tube when the two jaws are open.
  • FIG. 4 shows a detail of the jaws in the closed position corresponding to FIG. 2 and
  • FIG. 5 shows a detail of the jaws in the open position with the outer jaw raised, as in FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 1 this is a diagram representing a revolving table 1 which turns around a vertical axis 00'.
  • the table 1 has 16 working stations numbered from 2 to 17 and each comprising a seating 18 to guide a tube 19. Each station also has a pair of jaws 20-21 rigidly connected to the table by control rods 22-23.
  • the seating 2 is empty. It will be fitted with a tube 19 similar to that which can be seen in a plan view at station 3 in its seating 18.
  • Station 3 is the station for adjusting the vertical position of the tube 19.
  • Station 4 is used to tighten the stopper.
  • Station 5 is a station for printing the tube by guide marks.
  • the tube 10 is set in rotation and stopped for a defined position of the guide mark, so that the printing has a defined position relative to the line of transverse welding carried out at the following stations.
  • Station 6 is a filling station.
  • Station 7 is a free station.
  • Station 8 is for setting the tube to the correct height and possibly cutting it.
  • Stations 9-10-11-12 are for pre-heating then welding the tube; the jaws 20-21 are clamped over the orifice of the tube to close it definitively.
  • Station 13 is for corrugating, marking and cooling.
  • Station 14 is a stabilizing station.
  • Station 15 is for cutting to the correct length, and stabilizing.
  • Station 16 is a stabilizing station.
  • Station 17 is an ejecting station.
  • the outer jaw 21 is also lowered at stations 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 and 16. At stations 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 17, conversely, the outer jaw 21 is raised as shown in FIG. 2 or 5.
  • the tube 19 may either be accompanied or may be released at the level of its seating 18.
  • the tube 19 is ejected at 17 in particular, it is not necessary to project it above the height d in order to make it clear the level of the outer jaw 21 which is raised.
  • At station 5 printing can similarly take place at any level of the jaws, over the whole vertical distance d, even at the level of the jaws 20, 21. Without the arrangement for raising the jaw 21 it would be necessary to print below or above the said jaw. This would necessitate either extending the tube beyond the closing line or lowering the seating 18 and thereby reducing the guiding height.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 show in detail the arrangement which enables the outer jaw 21 to be raised above the jaw 20 when it is in the open position.
  • the jaws 20 and 21 are actuated by respective rods 22 and 23 which slide radially and are guided by a support 25.
  • the rod 22 has a hinge pin 24 and a spring 26 which endeavours to return the end 27 of the rod 22 to the vertical position, and thus the jaw 21 to the raised position, substantially above the inner jaw 20.
  • the inner jaw 20 is integral with a roller 28 which runs along the rod 22.
  • each jaw 20, 21 are each actuated by one respective rod, but obviously each jaw 20, 21 could be actuated by a pair of rods which were symmetrical relative to the radial plane passing through the axis of the corresponding seating 18.

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FR7825438A FR2434082A1 (fr) 1978-08-25 1978-08-25 Pince pour machine a remplir et fermer les tubes souples

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US4306400A (en) * 1980-02-07 1981-12-22 Rexham Corporation Packaging machine with continuous motion top sealer

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